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OPINION

Don’t believe alarmists about global warming

"It’s a scientific certainty," concludes Cray Little (Aug. 15 letter) of man-made global warming referring to a feature in New York Times magazine. The narrative, however, does not support the conclusion.

In short, the complexities of an open, coupled non-linear, chaotic atmospheric system cannot be reduced to a simplistic single temperature knob controlled by man.

Over one hundred years after Arrhenius and trillions of dollars wasted, no one can demonstrate or measure a mechanism by which carbon dioxide heats the atmosphere.

A 1974 CIA report found that: "A global climate change is taking place," and that, "We will not return to the climate of the past."
There is more. The report says: "Scientists are confident that unless man is able to modify the climate the northern regions[....] will again be covered with 100 to 200 feet of ice and snow."

Clearly, the CIA report was about food shortages and the coming population dislocations of a new ice age.

Finally, we learn the Jason group of elite scientists concludes that "even a minimal warming could lead to a rapid melting of the West Antarctic ice sheets. The ice sheet contains enough water to raise the level of oceans 16 feet."

The United States Geodesic Survey puts the west Antarctic ice sheet at just short of three trillion tons of mass, which if melted would raise ocean levels by less than one inch.